Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-02-25
LOCAL N e w 5.
Brief Mention.

Fine printing at Dorman's.
Colder weather to-day was expected yes
day.
Lawyer Dwight Tuttle has gone to Florids
to be away until April LIST.
Scribner's for March is received and fol
sale by 7. 81. Pease & Son.
Large numbers of people visit the free
library and reading room daily.
DIR. Charles II. French, of Waterbury, is
about to locate in Pawtucket, R. I.
The Connecticut river is now open from
Gildersleeve's Landing to the Sound.
II. G. Wilcox, wife and son and Mrs. E. B.
Everitt, all of Meriden, left for Florida
Wednesday.
M. S. Winslow of Meriden, who has been
dangerously sick with liver trouble, is i'm
proving slowly.
The board of compensation, the committee
on streets and the committee on nominations
meet this evening.
Miss Mamie Wrinn will sing at the Good
Samaritans' meeting at SIT Chapel street
next Sunday evening.
Michael Desmond, an old resident of Port
land, died at his home in that town on Wed
nesday at the age of sixty-one years.
The gale yesterday ripped off part of the
tin roof of Budans building, corner of Main
street and Fairfield avenue, Bridgeport.
The net proceeds of the grand charity ball
will amount to about 81, 700, handsome re-
suit, and the money will come very accepta-
bly, to the hospital.
Rev. William G. Wood died Tuesday in
North Branford where he had lived for fifteen
years past. For twenty-five years he was a
missionary in India.
Nicholas French of Zoar Bridge, who died
at the hospital Wednesday, was for some
years a merchant in West Ansonia and once
represented Oxford in the legislature.
Parties interested in the proposed sale of
the Derby railroad to the Housatonic rail-
road company will be heard at meeting of
the board of finance next Monday evening.
The schooner II. A. Barry, stranded at
Point Judith, was in good condition up to
yesterday morning, but yesterdays gale it
was feared must have damaged her consia-
erably.
The Trinity chimes will be rung Sunday
next for the FIRST time by c. 81. Meneely's
son, who will look after the chimes for q
week or two and instruct someone how to
play them.
The New York, Providence and Boston
railroad, which, extending from Providence
to New London, forms part of the Shore
Line between Boston and New York, will
heats its cars by steam next winter and will
do away with the oil-burning lamps and use
the Pintsch gas system.
The advantages to be derived from adver-
Using in the COURIER are well illustrated
by the fact that young gentleman inserted
a three-line cad" in yesterdays paper and
was in receipt by night of forty-eight
answers This indicates that those who
wish to reach the people must advertise in
the COURIER.
The late H. E. Hotchkiss, who was for |
years past in the Water street Office of Bene- |
dict & Co., the coal dealers, was member
of the Red Men of this city. His death is
the first in the order in this city. At a
meeting of Hammonassett lodge yesterday
afternoon appropriate action was taken and
resolutions were adopted.
The Hartford papers object to babies in
babies themselves. One of them is inhuman
enough to remark: "Women who insist on
taking babies to the opera house would con-
fer a favor by leaving them in the cloak |
room at the left of the entrance, where they |
will be properly checked and chloroformed."
Good suggestion just the same.-Waterbury |
American.